On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 11:33 AM, PEYMAN ASKARI <[email protected]> wrote:
> This is a general question regarding pixmaps and garbage collection > > I had a piece of code which ran roughly as follows > > def on_da_configure_event(...): > #pixmap stored in a list to become immutable > global da_pixmap > > da_pixmap[0]=gtk.Pixmap(...) > > essentially, everytime the da was reconfigured, the pixmap would be > overwritten with a new pixmap. However, the old pixmap was never removed. > Essentially the program would use more and more memory, until it crashed. Is > this normal behavior? > > Thanks > > > Peyman Askari > > > _______________________________________________ > pygtk mailing list [email protected] > http://www.daa.com.au/mailman/listinfo/pygtk > Read the PyGTK FAQ: http://faq.pygtk.org/ > You may want to take a look at this faq entry and see if this solves your problem: http://faq.pygtk.org/index.py?req=show&file=faq08.004.htp -- Simon Vermeersch
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